You may quarrel with centipedes, quibble with seals,declaim to a duck in the park,engage in disputes with cantankeroous coots,but never mince words with a shark.

You may rant at an anteater, banter with eels,and haggle with gaggles of geese,heap verbal abuse on a monkey or moose,but a shark you had best leave in peace.

You may argue with otters, make speeches to teals,and lecture at length to a shrew,but a shark will deflate your attempts at debate,and before you are done, you are through.

The author uses a lot of words that mean similar things. Choose stanza 1, 2, OR 3 and decide on some words that the author uses that mean similar things. Why is the author using those words? How do you know?

I chose stanza 3. The author chose words like "argue with otters" to make alliteration.

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5/6/2015 06:30:49 am

i am choosing stanza 3
Argue and debate
The author chose those words because he did not want to use the same word over again I know because argue and debate mean the same thing argue means to get mad at some one with word debate means to disagree with someone with words

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5/6/2015 06:40:31 am

In stanza 2 some words that mean the same thing are haggle and rant and banter. I know this because in the text before every animal, it says you can bother it, but then it says DON'T mess with a shark.

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#8

5/6/2015 06:56:18 am

I chose stanza 3. I chose stanza three cause right away I saw two words that meant the same thing. Those two words were done and through. They mean finished. they are synonym for each other.

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#1

5/6/2015 06:57:56 am

I chose stanza 2.The words that I chose we're rant ,banter,and verbal abuse. I think the author used these words to show that you can talk to other animals like that but you better not talk to sharks like that or in that tone. Talking to someone in that tone might get them upset so you don't want to upset a shark.

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5/6/2015 07:04:43 am

I choose stanza 3 for the words argue and debate. The author chose these word because they pretty much mean the same thing because argue means to fight and disagree and debate means to disagree also.

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#11

5/6/2015 07:19:46 am

I chose stanza 3. The words 'debate' and 'argue' mean the same thing. It means you disagree with something and you fight for it.You should never do that with a shark because it might get agree if you use that tpye of language.

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#4

5/6/2015 08:10:07 am

I chose stanza three.
In stanza three some of the words that meant something similar and were used were argue and debate, and lecture and speeches. Each pair of words are synonyms. This means they mean the same thing. To debate is to argue and when you lecture someone you go give them a speech. This is how the words are connected.

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#15

5/6/2015 08:24:21 am

I chose stanza 1. The words quarrel, quibble, declaim and engage in disputes mean to get into an argument or disagree with something. I think this because the stanzas of the poem lead up to saying not to argue with sharks. which is expressing that sharks are dangerous.

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#19

5/6/2015 08:33:44 am

I chose stanza 3
The two words that are similar to each other are, argue, and debate. I chose these because, when you debate over something, you are arguing over something. Also, when you are arguing over something, you are debating. I have learned this every day at school from my teacher because, she has to tell us which- is- which 'cause alot of poeple do it in our class room every day at school!

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Number thirteen

5/6/2015 08:39:46 am

I choose stanza 3 and picked argue with otters because the author wants you to not mess with a shark.

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20 :-)

5/6/2015 08:59:33 am

1. I chose the first stanza where it said you may quarrel with centipedes.
2. The words that means similar things are quarrel and cantankerous.
3. He is using those words because he wants to have the same meaning using different words.
4. I know because I looked in a dictionary.

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5/6/2015 09:01:14 am

Im using stanza 3. Words that are alike are argue debate and lecture. He used these words because he didn't want to say the same thing over and over again. All those words mean the same thing.

I chose stanza one. Quarrel and quibble mean, to argue or to disagree. By using these words, the author is trying to use alliteration.

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#6

5/6/2015 09:46:14 am

I chose stanza 2. The words from the stanza that mean similar things are

1. Rant

2. Banter

3. Haggle

4. Heap verbal abuse

The author Jack Prelutsky is trying to tell us with these words that you can mess with tinier, not dangerous little animals but not with sharks because they can eat or kill.

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#22

5/6/2015 11:28:03 am

In stanza or paragraph 1 I think that quarrel, quibble, declaim, and engage in disputes all mean to argue or be angry with and fight. The author is using these words because he or she wants you to know you can be angry with an animal but you just can't mince words with a shark.

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#17

5/6/2015 10:11:28 pm

I choose Stanza 3 , and the words argue, and debate because they mean similar things. Debate means a fight between groups. Argue means a disagreement between a single, or groups of 2 or more. Both words mean similar things, I think the author did this because I can't figure out why, SORRY, SORRY, AND SORRY!!!

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5/6/2015 10:53:20 pm

on line 2 it said gaggle haggle

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#16

5/7/2015 09:17:13 am

I choose stanza 2 or paragraph 2 and I think gaggle, haggle mean mess with and disturb.

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